More than 250 Jews from the Bnei Menashe community in northern India, including infants and the elderly, arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Tuesday to begin a new life in Israel. One hundred and fifty of them are couples,...
In Manipur, India, a group of people called the Bnei Menashe (named after Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi who led a failed mission to rescue them) says they are descendants of Jews who were banished from ancient Israel and...
A group of Kukis wants to travel to Israel, claiming to be the Bnei Menashe, one of Israel's ten lost tribes. They won't be able to do so unless they formally accept Judaism. Prafulla Das explores the perplexing situation...
Imphal: On December 15, 250 Indian Jews from Manipur and Mizoram arrived in Israel as part of the Bnei Menashe group. After a two-and-a-half-year wait, they became the first to arrive in the Jewish state.
The Bnei Menashe are thought...
THE NATION'S CAPITAL: Because their relatives in Delhi fell ill with a disease called Covid and were kept in quarantine, more than 100 Jews from Manipur have had to postpone their plans to move to Israel.
"It's a fantastic opportunity,"...
Thousands of Bnei Menashe began returning to their ancestral country in northeast India in the 1980s. Approximately 6,000 more people are on their way to join them.
Rut, 28, Dina, 21, and Avigail, 13, three Lhanghal sisters from northeast India,...
“I've been quietly crying for months whenever the prospect of leaving my home and family occurred to me. The desire to return to the sacred place, however, is too strong.” One of the 228 Jews who left Manipur on...
According to a representative from the Covid care center, they are set to fly to Israel on Thursday. Bnei Menashe Jews are thought to be descendants of the Manasseh tribe, one of Israel's ten lost tribes. According to sources,...
CHURACHANDPUR, INDIA (Reuters) – Abel and Sharon Hangsingh, along with their children and grandkids, waited for the sun to set over their small Buelah Lane colony's rusted steel roofs. As is customary in the far northeastern states, the sun...
Members of the Bnei Menashe tribe, who have been recognized by Israel as descendants of vanished tribes, are planning a reunion with their ancestors.
After a visa prohibition was overturned, a "lost" Jewish tribe in India waits expectantly for a...